Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way Margaret Thatcher did.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I'm totally myself.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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Want to calculate the chance your bus is late? The chance your softball team will win? Count the number of times it has happened in the past plus one, then divide by the number of opportunities plus two. And the beauty of Laplace’s Law is that it works equally well whether we have a single data point or millions of them.
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Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.
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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent.
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I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way Margaret Thatcher did.
